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Haiti: AMARC calls on community broadcasters to rally in support |
Anyone interested in supporting alternative communications in Haiti after |
Haiti Support Group (UK) |
A British solidarity organisation supporting the Haitian people's struggle for participatory democracy, human rights and equitable development |
NY Times Blogs on Haiti (1/14/10) |
The Help that Haiti Needs, by the Editors |
Les Ateliers-Ecoles de Camp Perrin | Link |
Pepe (Secondhand) |
Internet project called Micropepe.
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TB clinic in Haiti |
NY Times article (2/5/10)
"The situation has gone from bad to worse because the earthquake set off a dangerous diaspora. Most of the sanatorium's several hundred surviving patients fled and are now living in the densely packed cities where experts say they are probably spreading the disease. Most of these patients have also stopped taking their daily regimen of pills, therby heightening the chance that there will be an outbreak of a strain resistant to treatment, experts say." |
Global Lighting Energy |
The $230-billion Global Lighting Energy Bill Evan Mills, Ph. D. International Association for Energy-Efficient Lighting and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory June 2002 |
The Specter of Fuel-Based Lighting |
Article by Evans Mills, U. S. Department of Energy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Science Magazine, May 27, 2005 |
Solar Power to Build Back Better |
Saving diesel fuel for other uses right now seems to be a key issue -- may be a case for solar. |
Haiti - Infrastructure, power, and communications |
According to the following article (pre-January 2010 earthquake) only 10% of city dwellers and 3% of rural populations have access to electricity. Most common fuel is charcoal -- high environmental cost b/c produced by smallholders. |